Week Calendar

Join us inside to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers! This program is intended for children 0-12 months and their families.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Enjoy music, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a caregiver-led discussion and playgroup for tips and tricks to help navigate raising little ones. 

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.   Afterwards, we offer a "stay and play" for all to enjoy.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups.  Afterwards, we offer a baby playgroup for all to enjoy.

This program is for children ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Inspired by Musical Storytime? Play with a variety of instruments from around the world and make some music of your own!

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers. Ages 18 - 36 mos.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for toddlers ages 2-3 and their caregivers.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Ages 0-5.

Bring your ABC's and join us for a Soup-tastic toddler storytime! We will share a bowlful of songs, rhymes and stories that celebrate this cozy Winter treat. Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver. 

A multi-sensory storytime designed to support children with autism or sensory processing challenges. This time is designed to meet your child where they are in, a fun, engaging environment.

Let's Dance!  Wear your dancing shoes to learn some tap and ballet moves!

This program is designed for adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. This program is for children ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver. 

Designed with beginning mobility in mind, join us for movement, songs, stories and more that will guide caregivers toward early learning and literacy for toddlers.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Music, movement, stories and more! 

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for children's ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver. 

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Followed by baby playgroup. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Songs, stories and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

Calling all young writer's ages 12-17! We're inviting Teens to practice the craft of writing, share their work, and enjoy the wonderful world of writing. Stop by for activities and discussion with other teen writers.

Shri Yoga is a calming but challenging style practiced in an informal environment. Classes include various asanas, breathing exercises, chakra vibration, mantras, and relaxation techniques. Attendees are welcome to bring their own mat.

Movement, music, stories and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Practice reading skills to patient and adorable Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.). For Children Grades K-5. 

Make regular journaling feel like a joy, not a chore. Join local writer Laura Rennie for a practical and inspiring journaling workshop.

Engage your baby's senses with activities designed just for them while visiting with other caregivers. For ages 0-24 months, with a caregiver.

Join us to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers.

Children learn and explore through hands on activities using science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts at the library. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities!

Before you head out to lunch, swing by the library for some fun train themed Bingo! Prizes and good times galore with a favorite family game. All ages are welcome to this intergenerational event. 

Bring your little one to this sensory storytime and playgroup designed for children ages 0-24 months and a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Join us for play based learning, games and activities! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

Bring your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. 

Have fun exploring literacy, STEM, and art through play-based activities that integrate essential school skills.  Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. 

Introducing toddlers and their caregivers to a variety of preschool-readiness skills including fine motor development, social emotional skills, and early literacy activities. 

Variety of preschool aged activities to support early literacy and school readiness skills. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga's Good Cause Division. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat. Donations accepted.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. This program is for children ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math concepts. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a morning of building! Use the library's blocks and building toys to build with your little one while working on fine motor skills! For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Young learners can practice skills they will need for school - listening, asking, writing, cutting, tracing, and more. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Preschoolers and their caregivers will practice school-readiness skills with cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Don't be a square, join us for a shape-themed Fri-yay where you'll find activities involving shapes of all sorts and sizes around every corner! Just remember not to argue with the circles, there's no point...

Stories, movement, music, and fun for the entire family.  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Donna DiMarco brings deaf, hard of hearing and CODA babies and their families stories, interactive bonding moments and more in this ASL immersive storytime. A playgroup is featured afterward for families to connect. 

Learn about research in diet, nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement. Use hands-on tools to help incorporate these recommendations into a plan for healthy aging.

Recurring mahjong and game event hosted by the Asian American Center of Frederick.

This book club is designed to build on the excitement of emergent readers with different books and related activities to enjoy with their peers.

 The weather outside may be frightful, but inside the library it is delightful. Stop inside for an afternoon of crafts and games suitable for all ages. 

Come listen in on all you can see and do in France with Jaime Crosthwait from Terrapin Travel, and Paul Julia from Collette, who is an expert on France.

As you can tell by the title, this is not your usual book club!  Each month on a Sunday afternoon, experts from Frederick Health Hospice will explore issues surrounding death AND life through a variety of books and other media. And no, y

Preschoolers and their caregivers will build school-ready skills while having fun and exploring their social-emotional selves at this weekly kindergarten prep program. For ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Stop in and play chess with friends!

Participate in a variety of experiences related to science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.  This program is designed for children in grades K - 5 and their caregivers.

Connect with local business representatives to discover and pursue job opportunities for teens.

Participating Employers:

Frederick County Workforce Services

Ft. Detrick (life-guarding)

Drop in for a hands-on STEM Lab opportunity.  This program is designed from children in grades K-5 and their caregiver.

Symphony Saturdays is designed to introduce children in first through third grade to the instrument families through hands-on demonstrations by Maryland Symphony Orchestra musicians.

Join author Deepa Iyer as she shares her new picture book "We Are the Builders" - a gentle introduction to community organizing and finding your place in a movement. Curious Iguana will be on hand with books available for purchase and signing.

Test your ult against other teens! Come hang out and join in a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament. Sign up for the bracket or stay and watch! May the best fighter win.

Help spread some love to our furry friends! Create handmade toys and blankets for animals at the Frederick County Animal Control and Adoption Center.

Explore amazing animals that have adapted to survive in their habitat. This month we will take on extremely cold challenges, just like penguins and polar bears. Geared for elementary ages.

According to Guiness World Records, the fastest a 1,000 piece puzzle was put together was in 1 hour and 40 minutes. How fast can you put the pieces together? 

Compete individually or bring a friend and team up. 

Join us for an afternoon of Minecraft creation. This program is for elementary age children who are ready to have fun crafting a world together. This program will be divided into two groups.

Paint a happy little winter scene with friends! Supplies Limited

Spend your Tuesday afternoons with us. Take time to create art, all supplies provided by the library. Program for teens and tweens to start a new work of art or bring a work in progress! Suitable for teens in grades 6-12.

Join us for a variety of science, technology, engineering, arts and math activities for elementary-aged children.

Enjoy a reading of The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and then create artwork starting with just one dot.

This program is for children in kindergarten through 5th grades (ages 5-10).

Discover and explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature. Designed for kids in grades K-5.

Calling all young adventurers! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own character and go on magical adventures with your friends? Do you enjoy playing games and being creative?

"Sample" some of the finest literature FCPL has to offer. Our menu of tasty titles has something for everyone to enjoy. No reservations required. Come with a hungry mind and curious appetite. 

This presentation provides an overview of suicide trends in Frederick County, examining key data and risk factors.

Learn to play a new game with other game fans. Fran Roth, game herald for Envoy Games, will demo and teach the game.

For tweens, teens, and adults.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga.  Be sure to wear comfortable clothes.

We welcome adults who want to practice their English to a conversation class hosted by the Literacy Council of Frederick County.

Storytime, pajama style!  Enjoy movement, music, and stories with the whole family.  PJ's optional!  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

To complete this series, we will build a terrarium.

Using our succulent cuttings that we propagated during week 1, we will create a terrarium using a glass container, soil, sand and decorative materials.

Join us for an all-ages storytime after a long day of work and play. Unwind with stories, songs, and rhymes for the whole family!

In "A Legacy of Memories: Creating Your Personal Legacy Projects," participants will embark on a meaningful journey to preserve and share their life's most cherished moments.

What adventures could your stuffed friend have when they spend the night in the library?  Find out by dropping them off at Pajama Storytime.  Pick them up the following week and learn all about the fun they had!

Enjoy music, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Join us to experiment with popcorn toppings and view Pixar shorts!

This program is for teens in 7th through 12th grades (ages 13-18).

Songs, stories and fun for the whole family -- pajamas are welcome!  Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

Join us for a screen-free evening to relax and unwind as we explore ways to build and create with that magical food, pasta! Designed for elementary-aged children.